Senior Systems Engineer

Job Locations
US-MA-Cambridge

Category

IT/Technology Management

Overview

Fuel your intellectual curiosity and professional growth. Forrester is an idea company, where smart, motivated, curious people bring a diversity of opinions and the courage of their convictions to collaborate on ideas that change the course of business. Most of all, bring a point of view; here, every voice has value. At Forrester, you’ll work with innovative clients at emerging and established brands; these are the business and technology leaders we inspire and who inspire us. The Forrester experience is built on a singular, powerful purpose: to challenge thinking and lead change.

About This Role:

As a Senior Systems & Applications Architect, you will use your expertise and experience in the areas and activities described below to deliver solutions and services. The candidate is expected to have a self-motivating personality and strong work ethic. The candidate must demonstrate a deep knowledge of Linux, storage, and cloud services and be security focused.

Responsibilities

Design and define system architecture for new or existing systems. Review and assess existing enterprise applications to support new features, performance improvements, upgrades, and ongoing sustainment.

Determine system specifications and working parameters for hardware/software compatibility.

Implement and operate diagnostics and monitoring tools to understand, assess, and modify system behavior and performance.

Identify areas of instability and deviations from best practices with components supporting enterprise applications.

Participate in performance, load, and stress testing and remediation of issues identified.

Participate in security architecture reviews of enterprise systems.

Participate in efforts to develop new systems and upgrades and updates to existing systems, throughout the entire application life cycle: requirements analysis and definition, system design, implementation, testing, deployment, and sustainment.